Tag: cognitive research

Children playing musical instruments in Scotland. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/Murdo Macleod There seems to be a general belief, especially among parents, ...

There's a common stereotype that depicts athletes as being grunts that are all brawn and no brain. In reality, the truth ...

(c) Paul Popper/Popperfoto/Getty Images Boredom seems to be a dominant "affliction" of the 21st century. That's not to say it's ...

First initiated in 2008 by IBM, the Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE) program whose final goal is that ...

Interestingly enough, a group of cognitive psychologists at Japan's Hiroshima University found that browsing through cute photos, such as those ...

When fine art is concerned, or visual arts in general for that matter, complex cognitive functions are at play as ...

The findings of a new research at UCLA, suggest that cramming all night before a big test, something that we've ...

Someone whose been driving for 20 years, let's say, in the United States and somehow ends up driving a car ...

When you first see this magnificent painting by Ukranian painter Oleg Shuplyak, your brain perceives the portrait of the famous ...

“Would you make the same decisions in a foreign language as you would in your native tongue?” asks Boaz Keysar, ...

Chewing without actually eating seems pretty weird, if you think a bit about it, even so it's a highly popular ...

The average brain can only hold about five to seven pieces of information at a time within 30 seconds - ...

  For some reason, people are a bit reluctant to believe the things neuroscientists are telling them. Things such as ...